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  1. Re:Bribery Tax on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    Or tax all the pedantic grammar/spelling nazis who'd rather nitpick minor things than stay on focus. :p

  2. Re:I do not understand... on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 0

    And clearly you're asleep at the wheel, and definitely part of the problem.

  3. Set up a RAID 51 :D on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? · · Score: 1

    http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multLevel15-c.html

    Buy lots of hard drives and build a NAS using RAID 51. Pretty much never have to worry again. Use PAR2 if you want just in case files somehow get corrupted.

    It's a way overboard solution, but it's pretty close to bulletproof. Using something like Carbonite or one of the other remote online storage methods mentioned would be much similar without the ridiculous costs a home RAID 51 would incur.

  4. Re:Newsflash: PCs are alive and well. on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    This. A thousand times this. PCs aren't going anywhere.

  5. Re:FFS it's not that hard on Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out · · Score: 1

    I'd mod this up if I had mod points right now. I was going to post exactly the same thing.

  6. Re:Lazy journalism. on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Yes, AIDS is a Syndrome caused by HIV which is a Virus. Your being a pedant served no purpose other than making an ass of yourself. There is no lazy journalism going on here.

  7. Re:i don't get the whole h264 fiasco on The Looming Video Codec Fight · · Score: 1

    Well, theoretically, if hard/software folks didn't have to pay licenses and royalties for the tech, then they could sell the soft/hardware cheaper, for one.

  8. Re:Reflections of Paul Ryan's Notion of Class Warf on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Payback's a bitch ain't it.

    Live by the sword, die by the sword.

  9. Re:Reflections of Paul Ryan's Notion of Class Warf on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Wah wah wah. Cry some more. The top 1% have been fucking the rest for a long time. It's perfectly fair for them to be on the receiving end for once. Cope.

  10. Re:WTF on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    You completely miss the point. Completely and utterly. Everyone has a responsibility to pay taxes. taxes help keep things running. The rich use their wealth to buy tax breaks and other perks, as well as ferreting out any and all loopholes to continue not paying any taxes at all. This is what is not okay. It's not a "tyranny of the majority" (boo fucking hoo, you rich fucks being held responsible, such a crying shame -_- ), it's holding the guilty parties feet to the fire.

  11. Re:Class warfare? on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Eating Ramen 3 times a day in a bad part of the neighborhood with no car, etc. etc. is not really "living."
    If you ran up CC debt, you *didn't* make it through college without borrowing.
    Everyone knows what the American Dream is and that it's unobtainable by the majority (at all, or without major financial consequences), stop being a moron.

  12. Re:Tax-the-rich crowd bad at math on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Are you a moron? Oh, sorry, rhetorical question.

    All of you who bleat this stupidity seem to feel we should just continue down the same fucked path. So what if taxing higher "only" amounts to half the deficit. 1/2 is better than nothing, last I checked.

  13. The only problem with NoScript et. al. on Ziff Davis Secretly Paying Sites To Track Users · · Score: 1

    Is that so many sites are so cross scripted/integrated these days that sometimes you have to allow places you otherwise wouldn't in order for content to display. Nobody hosts their own content these days, esp. media.

  14. Re:You noticed that now? on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

    I am amused by the view that we are the "product", because that is a farce. The viewer is much like the person working at 7-Eleven or McDonald's. Looked down on with ignorant contempt by people in higher station. The reality is if we all gave the collective finger, then where would they be? All the ad placement in the world wouldn't help either of them. They *need* us for the whole retarded system to work. Given that need, I think we should be treated a bit better. A little respect isn't a bad thing.

    Of course the real true reality is that only a few people know/believe what I say, the rest are bleating sheep and will do no more than cry a little, then go on with the status quo.

  15. Re:So... this is the "better Facebook"? on Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme · · Score: 1

    Clearly you haven't tried Google+ or you'd know how it was better than Facebook. But hey, go ahead and jerk your knees and waive your arms and say G+ is crappy all because you heard something on the Internet.

  16. Re:All this heavy handed crap... on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sure they've got weaknesses, everyone has them, but in this sense, they're turning out to be the least dick-ish of companies. I used to hate Sprint back when I sold phones 10 years ago (I started out with my service being Airtouch, before they conglomerated into Verizon). They had lousy reception, the phones sucked, and they paid lower bonuses for selling phones and signing people up for service.

    By comparison, they've really turned stuff around it seems.

  17. All this heavy handed crap... on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    ...is just making Sprint look better and better really. Unless the guy at the Sprint store was lying to me, they don't care if you tether, they don't seem to care if you root, and they still have unlimited data (though apparently you need to root and such to avoid throttling at some point).

  18. Re:Better password manager needed on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    As I noted above, the flaw in this is that not all sites use login fields that Firefox can capture. Imageshack is but one example of such a site.

  19. Perhaps... on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    ...we should add basic security to the curriculum at schools? I'm sure I'll be parroting what others have said already, but all password systems need to allow letters (case mattering), numbers, and special characters. Further I think they should require them. Length limits are good, and 8 is a decent starting point. Obvious pass words should be blacklisted as being done here. Perhaps implement a check against other user info like birth-date and such to refuse passwords involving 2 and 4 year birth year dates, etc.

    Making password management easier for folks without it being a program they have to buy or spend a lot on will go a long way too. Being able to make one really long random strong password and have it applied to all websites would make things easier for the average user. Obviously they could then protect that with only one other password which they would need to memorize. Of course a keylogger could cause a problem there, but that's an issue no matter what.

    At least with a central program, if a system was found to be rooted, once cleared the program could be used to push out a new password for all accounts, with a new master password for the program. No idea how feasible this would be though. First have to get all websites on board with decent password systems. Still far too many out there that restrict to text/digits only passwords, which is part of the problem. Especially when some of these sites are banks. Would also need sites to stop using login fields that a browser or other software cannot detect. That doesn't stop a keylogger, and only makes logins more of a PITA for the user.

  20. You don't say? on 30th Anniversary of Donkey Kong · · Score: 2

    "For instance, it was originally going to be a game about Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl."

    Actually, Nintendo *did* make a Popeye video game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(video_game) It was both in the Arcade and on the NES.

  21. Re:What about wool? on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 1

    If that were the case then why do sheep smell? Hrm? :p

  22. Re:Birthday? on America: Like It Or Unfriend It · · Score: 1

    Lots of people have obsessions with things that are quaint, cute, and totally pointless.

  23. Why has it taken so long for anyone to think... on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 1

    ...of this? I used to wonder about this as a kid at least 15-ish years ago. Even without the stuff about propellers and pressure and such, it seemed obvious that a plane flying through a cloud would set off a reaction from the larger water drops formed from the condensation buildup on the body of it. Said larger drops fall off and through the cloud further causing a reaction.

    Of course I never studied it or took it further, so it is quite possible I am wrong, but the point stands that I thought of it long ago, why is it only news now? Surely I am not the only one to think of it?

  24. So many spineless pussies here at /. on LulzSec Announces That It Is Done · · Score: 0, Troll

    Every last one of you spouting your BS against them, calling them weenies for apparently quitting, talking down what they did "oh, they only did this or this, it's nothing."

    Well *you* certainly didn't do it. Nobody else was doing it. They made a point to many companies about their lax and/or overestimated security measures, and managed to dump some very useful info exposing a group that continuously abuses their power stepping on our rights. What the hell have you done lately besides run your mouth here on /.? Hmmm? Yeah, not a damn thing besides bend over and take it up the shitter like the sheep you are. Talk tough on the internet, QQ all day every day, and never do a thing.

    Try paying attention to and doing something about what "LulzSec" showed, instead of just being so much more useless yammering on the Internet. If people focused more on action than words, we wouldn't have any kind of need for groups like them.

  25. Is it *really* defamation... on Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows · · Score: 1

    ...if it's true? Pretty sure it isn't. Seems kind of like trying to manipulate and say that a tree falling in the woods *doesn't* make a sound, just because nobody heard it. We all know that's not the case.